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Q&A How should the post revision viewers be improved?

Make it possible to toggle between markdown source and rendered output. This is helpful for the history view but essential for reviewing suggested edits: If we only had rendered output and no...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2025-07-09T17:24:25Z (about 1 year ago)
Make it possible to toggle between markdown source and rendered output.  This is helpful for the history view but essential for reviewing suggested edits:

- If we only had rendered output and not markdown, then it would be much harder to catch sneaky spam injections like making a `.` a link.

- If we only have markdown (like now), then reviewing formatting-heavy posts, including anything with Mathjax, is daunting.  I don't know how folks on our Mathematics community even manage that.  We shouldn't make them work that hard.

For a post history this should be a toggle; we don't want to double the size of that page by always showing both.  While there's more room on a suggested-edit page, I think it should be a toggle there too, at least for now, instead of trying to show both source and rendered output.  You want both to be available when you're *creating* content, which is why we have the preview, but for *reviewing*, let's not add the extra UI and code complexity until we determine that it's needed.  (And also, let's not forget about phones.)